Captain Kangaroo is a children’s television series that aired weekday mornings on the CBS television network for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of its day. The show was conceived and the title character was played by Bob Keeshan who had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show on NBC.

Robert James "Bob" Keeshan(June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)

"The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV on this day in 1955 and aired intermittently as a variety show for children until 1996. It was Walt Disney’s second venture into producing a television series, the first being the Walt Disney anthology television series, initially titled Disneyland.